Tuesday, August 31, 2010

This time I was gonna pass by the Totlot, but did a quick scan at the swings found .26 cents the first coin of the morning was a quarter. I than walked over to the area I had in mind for searching, I checked around a large rock found some coins and this Ugly ring which registered dime on my machine.

Than I went over to the picnic tables by the board walk, here I found many coins and this bracelet which registered as a high quality penny, I believe it's made of copper. The pennies I perfer to find are the higher grade, pre 1982.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Here at the beach I started out at the TotLot, found some clad coins and this weird type button looks like it came off of something denim or Gothic. The size of this button is 1" long by 1" at the widest point.At the spiral slide in the woodchips I also found an unspent bullet 350 Auto this item I don't want to save, usually I see a police car in the area but not today. After I got home and mowed the front yard, than I talked to the neighbor told him about my find and that I want to dispose of it properly, he told me to call the police and they would pick it up. I did and they did come to pick it up, to dispose of it the right way. **Never throw a live bullet into the trash**.

After the play area I went over to a different area of the park, here there was a gravel parking lot, found quite a few coins in the gravel parking area. I this area I found this pendent which registered as a penny/dime on my ACE250, looks like it's a frame for a dogtag. The size is 2 1/2" long by 1 5/8" wide, belive it hangs on those ugly big chains. There was an event here over the weekend with all kinds of modern and old fire trucks and live music, where the stage was I found one of the guitar picks (red) Quality Taylor Guitars H...

Sunday, August 29, 2010

This morning was a beautiful start of the day, clear skies and not to chilly but still have a bit humidity to deal with. I went to one elementary school (nicknamed the Mosquito school, there are a lot of trees covering the play area and very little sun gets thru causing a large amount of these blood suckers). Didn't find a whole lot of coins here, did find .58 cents. Also found a pair of childrens shoes in the grass, each shoe had a heart charm on the top, I took them off the shoes to use on my painted spoons as an accent piece, I did leave the shoes there. Instead of searching another school I decided to search one of the many parks I go to. I'm going to wait until the kids are back to school so the play areas and school grounds get replenished. The park produced a lot of dimes, here I found .98 cents.

Only found 4 pennies at the first school, alot where found at the second location I believe this wheatie was found there. It is a 1945.

This Hot wheel car, B04 Mitsubishi Eclipse Conceprt Car-Thailand was found at the second elementary school this morning, in the grass just outside of the woodchip play area.

This Tonka green ladder fire truck was also found at the second school closer to the building. On the bottom says Maisto with an R in a circle, this website www.maisto.com . Tonka with the copyright mark 2000 or 2006 hard to make out the last # and than Hasbro. The first school I did't find to much, Did manage to find .14 cents. I'm sure once school starts again these places will be replenished with coins. The second school did find $2.36 in coins, one area found most of the quarters roughly about 4 inches down.

Friday, August 27, 2010

While doing laundry I walked around looking on the floor and in the machines to see if I could find any coins, I saw none. As I was watching the clothes dry, I looked at the machines at an angle and with the reflection on the face of the Driers I saw something sticking out of coin return, found a coin after all...

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I was driving to the beach this morning, spotted 3 deer feeding on the side of the road as I slowed down the car noise caused them to look up at me, a beautiful sight. In this town you can come across areas with deer, last year I saw one running across someones front yard.Last week at the beach, I talked with a lady nicknamed the "Purple Lady" for she wears purple all the time. She told me that she collects pull tabs for "MS" I told her that I had alot and that she could have them (I have no use for them), she told me who to drop them off to an old gentleman that always sits at the beach, he will give them to her (saw him there many times). I took the bag in today, when I walked up to see if he was the person I spotted a penny on the sidewalk.Searched a little over an hour the Totlot and some of the grassy area.

Friday, August 20, 2010

This Morning, I decided not to get up before 6 AM. I took it easy this morning and after awhile I went out for a short time to the grocery store. When I got inside the store I went over to the Coin-Star machine and checked the return slot, didn't see anything so I stuck my hand in and found a quarter. When I was done getting what I needed I spotted a dime on the floor in front of a bench by the Exit, I picked that up also...I plan to go detecting tomorrow, hopefully it'll be a quiet night from the neighbors.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

This morning, I went back to the beach to search the park. Not much at all in the TotLot, did find a dime and this pin, had to cut thru the material under the woodchips to get at the pin, it is 1" long x 7/8" at widest point. Has a circle with a green cross and the words on the pin says Rochester Safety Council - the words around the circle says Universal Safety one little word on the bottom is hard to make out. Also found a lot of pennies 13 are pre-1982's. Met some nice people this morning, one couple asked if I found something and at that moment it was a bottle cap but mentioned that my machine registered a quarter and there was still something in the hole, my pro-pointer was buzzing. Ah, got the quarter and a dime. Was out for about 2 hours. The 1969D dime at first thought was a 1960D, no luck after cleaning it a bit more I noticed the 0 was a 9.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

This morning, I went to 3 parks/playgrounds haven't been to them for awhile. The first place in the TotLot found 2 dimes and a penny plus this flattened penny from The Rochester Museum & Science Center. More coins were found under a large tree (a lot of quarters) found $2.67 at this park. The second place a playground, not to much .65 cents and the last place only a quarter and 5 cans/bottles for the .05 cents deposit.***State Quarters***As of today August 18, 2010 I have found all the states from metal detecting, at least 1 State Quarter some states I have found more of. This I did myself for fun to see if I could find all states before the season was up and today was the day. It took from March 17, 2010 to August 18, 2010...

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

This morning I was glad to be out detecting, haven't been out with the Ace since Friday morning. Had problems in our neighborhood with neighbors having loud parties (police was called many times from the neighbors) and and the house next to us had a very large group of people 50+ in the small apartment, after they all piled out someone started shooting. This making it a very long sleepless night making Saturday a very tired day and Sunday it rained. I have to say city living is the pits. I did find these items in the woodchips of the TotLot at the beach also found another Chucky Cheese token 2007, along with alot of clad coins. Did very good at one swing set, at one swing found .62 cents at the other end of the swings found 2 quarters. Dimes were found just about everywhere in the play area. Did check the grassy area found some more coins. Tomorrow, I will go to some play areas I haven't been to for a while and see if they were re-stocked.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Went to two parks, the first one not to great found .22 cents. I went to the second location did pretty good, even with the humidity being high. The first coin I found was this 1943P War Nickel next to one of the play equipment, this was the oldest coin found today. I did find a 2009P dime in very good condition, I need it to fill a spot in my dime coin album. At this park I found $1.72.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I ran to the store to pick up a few things, especially apples (the MacIntosh is very good this year). When I went inside, I checked the return slot of the coin-star machine saw some coins, 1 canadian dime a nickel, 2 canadian pennies and a regular penny.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Went Coin shooting at the beach/park this morning as I was getting my things out of the car I spotted a penny on the ground next to the car. Than I searched the TotLot first found some clad coins and this token next to a swing, at first I thought I had another dollar coin but no. After the play area I started searching the grassy area, it was very humid had a very hard time seeing glasses kept fogging up, went to the end near the water was a bit cooler and was able to see. Did check a little in the sand found a quarter (didn't stay long on the sand as mentioned earlier for me it's hard to walk on).

On the way back home I start seeing that the trees are getting a tint of fall color, one tree is already a orange.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

This morning I went to two schools and did very good. The first one I went to looked like someone had been there before me, saw some large areas that had been dug and filled in not to good. The woodchips I found nothing, except in the second smaller play are a couple of dimes. I searched the grassy area around the school and found coins. The first school I found $1.68. The second school wasn't to far away, there is construction work going on here so had to walk past the skids of supplies to get to the play area. I managed to find a quarter in the woodchips at the end of the slid and under the climbing equipment I spotted a ring on top of the woodchips, this childs ring has no mark. Again, I went into the grassy area and started to find coins also around the jungle gym (had to crawl into it. Man, I'm not as young as I used to be. There I found a quarter). At this school I found $1.54, than I called it a day the sky started to look like rain...

Saturday, August 7, 2010

I always get to the center early and have to wait awhile, which wasn't bad today since the weather was nice and comfortable. I walked a short distance to the next door parking lot, there is a car wash place with the vaccums. I decided to walk around the machines and see if I could find anything, did find a penny. I than saw some of the members arriving, so I walked back up to the center...

This morning I got an early start so I could search at one of the elementary schools before the club meeting, that starts at 10 AM. I did find clad, more in the dimes (found $1.08). After the meeting all new members and members that never hunted in a seeded hunt got a short lesson on how and what to do. I joined in since I never have never done one of those. The club president seeded dimes, he showed us the technique that is used to plant the coins in the soil (very interesting). Also, the members that have done this helped the newbies learn the technique on searching and recovering the coins, what to look for and hopefully pick up speed (that will come with time and practice). While waiting I recovered a lone penny. I did get 18 dimes.

Friday, August 6, 2010

I see that I need this date for my nickel coin album, has no mint mark on the reverse side.

The tokens where found near the Band Gazebo between 2 picnic tables. Found the three and also the 3 blank ones on top of the grass, some had been found without the detector...

The earring was found in the TotLot next to the play equipment. I see no metal mark so don't think it's a good one. I did find a lot of coins in the play area guess the break gave it a change to refill with coins. I was Lucky no one went there while I was away. Today, I did very good at this park. Searched for 2 1/2 hours and the temp. was beautiful. Tomorrow is first Saturday of the month and our Club meeting for GVTS, I always get in some coin shooting at a school before the meeting.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

For several reasons I didn't go out detecting, first was the car, than rain and heat and yesterday had to do laundry. I did find a penny on the floor of the laundry mat gave it to a gentleman that was there washing cloths with his young son, told him heres a Lucky penny for the boy, (I did not enter the penny in my journal). The family was traveling thru the area, they live in NYC. It was so Hot yesterday with Humidity that I could actually see the air, I hate the humidty. Today was gonna go out but thunderstorms are in the area so decided not to go out again the heat is on, tomorrow supposed to be cooler and I will hit the park. I did take cans and bottles to the store for deposit, had 3 large bags it was about time to get them out...